President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appointed Dr John Chrysostom Muyingo as Uganda’s Acting Minister of Education and Sports with immediate effect. According to a press release issued by the Presidential Press Unit on 25 June 2026, Muyingo will oversee the ministry in the absence of a substantive minister.

Muyingo is a long-serving education administrator, politician, and educator who has served as the State Minister for Higher Education since 2011 and as the State Minister of Primary Education. He is one of the key figures in Uganda’s education sector, having been involved in several government education initiatives, including higher education reforms, student financing programmes, and digital learning projects.

Before this appointment, Muyingo retained his role as State Minister for Higher Education in President Museveni’s newly announced 2026 – 2031 Cabinet.

Muyingo takes over the leadership of the ministry from First Lady Janet Kataaha Museveni, who has served as Minister of Education and Sports since June 2016 and was retained in the cabinet announced in May 2026. The State House statement indicates that his appointment is temporary and intended to ensure continuity at the ministry. Public speculation has circulated that Janet Museveni was last seen in public on 21 March 2021.

A former Member of Parliament for Bamunanika County (2011-2021), Muyingo is the founder of educational institutions, including St Charles Lwanga International School, Seeta Nursery & Kindergarten, Seeta Primary School, Seeta High School and Seeta University.